This article gives short shrift to the role the pharmaceutical industry played in making this life-changing treatment a reality. It barely mentions Vertex. Vert

This article gives short shrift to the role the pharmaceutical industry played in making this life-changing treatment a reality. It barely mentions Vertex. Vertex is the biotech company that made the big bet on cystic fibrosis, a rare disease that most companies wouldn’t touch because of the small market and unknown biology made it too risky. They were the ones that believed in the science and developed multiple CF drugs and got them into the hands of patients. Here’s a 2019 STAT article that gives a fuller account of Vertex’s role: https://www.statnews.com/2019/10/23/we-conquered-a-disease-how-vertex-delivered-a-transformative-medicine-for-cystic-fibrosis/ https://www.statnews.com/2019/10/23/we-conquered-a-disease-h...